Events

The Bay Area GNU Picnic will be held on August 14 at Lake Temescal
in Oakland, CA. It should be a good opportunity for people who are still
in the area after LinuxWorld to decompress and enjoy some fun with the GNU
folks. See the announcement for details; they are
looking for somebody to bring a dragon to grill the food, though there will
evidently be charcoal around as a backup.
An Alpha Linux users BOF will be held at LinuxWorld next week, even
though it does not appear on the schedule. It's Wednesday, August 11,
5:30-7:30 in room J1.

Linux Standard Base update.
On July 24, Stuart Anderson gave a presentation to the Suncoast
Linux Users Group about the Linux Standard Base. SLUG has now put
up a
detailed transcript of the talk, which contains a lot of
information on what the LSB is trying to do. Worth a read.

The tenth Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy will be held
in Toronto on April 4-7, 2000. They have issued a call for participation for that event, with the deadline being October 15,
1999.

User Group News

Long Island Linux Users Group will be having a Webserver Festival in
Lupton Hall at SUNY Farmingdale at 8 pm on Tuesday August 10. Come to
learn about configuring Apache or Roxen. For more information see
lilug.org/meetings.html